The weather was awesome. The sun was already out and after just a few minutes we descried the first wildlife of the day. Today was our last (half) day in Yellowstone. Our ride led us to the south entrance, but first we had to stop one last time at the Grand Prismatic Spring. The sun was shining and I was so excited to take these great photos I had pictured in my mind for so long, based on all the wonderful ones I had seen on the internet prior to our visit. Well, what I didn’t consider was the still freaking cold air – cold air, hot water = steam, and I mean a lot of steam!!! We were barely able to sneak a peak of the rich coloring Grand Prismatic Spring is famous for – WTH? Anyhow, it was still great to be there!

The evening before we had stopped at the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone town. ‘The Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center is a wildlife park and educational facility. The Center offers every visitor to Yellowstone a chance to uniquely experience the world of grizzly bears and gray wolves. All the animals at the Grizzly & Wolf Discover Center are unable to survive in the wild and serve as ambassadors for their wild counterparts.’ – source https://www.grizzlydiscoveryctr.org/

We had an amazing educational conversation with one of the Rangers. He explained wolf behavior to us and confirmed that there are ones in a while single wolves. However, just because we saw just one wolf doesn’t mean that the rest of the pack wasn’t close by. The one we saw might just have been the precursor. The Ranger kept telling us about the different wolf packs living in Yellowstone National Park and where their current residence in the park is.

Todays stretch was actually the one we originally had planned to drive last Thursday. Just as a reminder, the street was closed due to weather conditions. But today we were actually able to see why. Although I’m certain a lot of the snow had been melted over the last few days, there was still quite “a bit” on the roadside.

And then, after a short stop at the park exit sign, it was time to say goodbye to the Yellowstone National Park. But why would we be sad? We had a great time with amazing experiences. And also…… just a short drive away the Grand Teton National Park starts. Here we “only” got to see some moose, pronghorns, geese and a lot of very colorful birds, however the mountains at Grand Teton are so impressive. We enjoyed every second of the drive and had to pull over quite often to soak it all in.